Calica Computer Solutions

23/03/2024

This happened to one of my customers a while back - HP printer stopped working all because his debit card used to pay for Instant Ink had expired.

One of the reasons I'm not a fan of the Instant ink feature!

23/03/2024

When you can no longer read the sign writing, it's time for a wash! The problems of living and working in a rural area!

05/01/2023

According to my wife, this is me in my office! A bit harsh, I think!

20/04/2021

New graphics on the car! A great job completed by Digital Sign Fx, thanks to them, thoroughly recommended!

28/08/2019

Maybe I should branch out and start selling these!

Hahaha this is just brilliant. Thanks to GD for sending this in!

12/06/2019

Seems to sum things up, as I look out the window!

When the installation fails, at least we keep our sense of humour 🤣

20/04/2018

Every week I spend a lot of time dealing with account recovery and forgotten passwords!

19/12/2017

Let’s be careful what information we give out!

Have any of you answered one of these posts on social media lately? You may want to be more careful of what you’re sharing.

18/10/2017

Though I’d share this as all of my children play Roblox and internet safety is always a concern.

We are putting out this post following our visit to a school yesterday. As most people know we are concerned about the popular app ROBLOX which is by far the most popular game played by children from 5 to 10 years of age.
We were talking to a very large group of year 1 students and we were shocked when over half of them said they were playing ROBLOX. When we spoke to Year 2 at least 70 percent of them were playing the game.
Most of these children then disclosed that they had online friends in ROBLOX that their parents didn’t know about. It got worse when many of the children stated they had received many in game messages from ‘strangers’ and that they hadn’t told their parents. All of the children then stated that they had seen ‘naked’ characters walking around the game and that the characters were doing very adult things.
The inappropriate content has been disclosed to us thousands of times by young children but we were previously unaware that the children were being sent numerous messages. When talking to Year 3 students they suggested that a lot of the messages are inappropriate. In all cases the children aren’t telling their parents.

Most of the young children we spoke to yesterday appear to have been talking to strangers in the game by using a headset to speak. The headset is usually just a normal set of ear pods that you would get bundled with an Apple device as opposed to a specific gaming accessory.

We would advise every parent to check their child’s ROBLOX account and look to see if they have friends that they do not know. Many of the children we spoke to yesterday said their accounts were ‘maxed out’ meaning they have 200 online friends.

We would also ask parents to check the child’s in game message inbox to check if they have been receiving inappropriate messages. We have included the most up to date app icon to make it easier for people to spot.

As people will know we have previously posted about this app and spoke of very concerning incidents.

PLEASE CAN EVERYONE SHARE THIS POST SO THAT PARENTS KNOW TO CHECK THEIR CHILDS ACCOUNT

*Please note, we do not claim technical expertise on this app and the purpose of this post is to raise awareness of what children have told us and enable parents to check that their children haven’t been messaged or friended by paedophiles.